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+ | **Create a new swap partition:** | ||
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+ | fdisk /dev/sdb | ||
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+ | 1. press n to create a new disk partition, | ||
+ | 2. press p to create a primary disk partition, | ||
+ | 3. press 1 to denote it as 1st disk partition | ||
+ | 4. press ENTER twice to accept the default of 1st and last cylinder – to convert the whole secondary hard disk to a single disk partition | ||
+ | 5. press t (will automatically select the only partition – partition 1) to change the default Linux partition type to swap 82 | ||
+ | 6. press L to list all the currently supported partition type | ||
+ | 7. press 82 (as per the L listing) to change partition 1 to 82 for Linux swap partition type | ||
+ | 8. press p to display the secondary hard disk partition setup (1st partition is denoted as /dev/sdb1 in Linux) | ||
+ | 9. press w to write the partition table and exit fdisk upon completion. | ||
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+ | # mkswap /dev/sdb1 | ||
+ | # swapon -av ---- activate all swap | ||
+ | # swapon -s ---- show active swap | ||
+ | # vi /etc/fstab and add the following line: | ||
+ | /dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 | ||
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+ | After modifying the fstab, always check if everything is mounting fine with : | ||
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+ | # mount -a | ||
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+ | </code> |